African Founders
by David Hackett Fischer
How enslaved and free Africans shaped American regions, languages, music, law and ideas of liberty. Fischer's late, sweeping companion to Albion's Seed.
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you read Albion's Seed and want the missing half.
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Three things you will actually use
- Founders include the enslaved.
- Culture flows both ways.
- Freedom was defined by those denied it.
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The other founders.
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